Comments on: The Great Socialist Takeover – Peter Ferrara’s Blistering Study Of ObamaCare http://www.thesubstratum.com/general-politics/health-care-general-politics/the-great-socialist-takeover-peter-ferraras-blistering-study-of-obamacare/ Obama. No Clue, No Leadership, No Way Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:42:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: G.J. Merits http://www.thesubstratum.com/general-politics/health-care-general-politics/the-great-socialist-takeover-peter-ferraras-blistering-study-of-obamacare/comment-page-1/#comment-375 G.J. Merits Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:13:28 +0000 http://www.thesubstratum.com/?p=251#comment-375 Dr. Chartrand, I am greatly pleased at your contributions to the comments section of this blog. Your insights provide remarkable value to the debate and I hope you continue to visit this blog and comment. Your grasp of the subject matter has qualities of both breadth and depth. Thank you again and I hope to hear more from you. Dr. Chartrand,

I am greatly pleased at your contributions to the comments section of this blog. Your insights provide remarkable value to the debate and I hope you continue to visit this blog and comment. Your grasp of the subject matter has qualities of both breadth and depth. Thank you again and I hope to hear more from you.

]]> By: Dr. Max Stanely Chartrand http://www.thesubstratum.com/general-politics/health-care-general-politics/the-great-socialist-takeover-peter-ferraras-blistering-study-of-obamacare/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Dr. Max Stanely Chartrand Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:20:56 +0000 http://www.thesubstratum.com/?p=251#comment-371 In that $500,000,000 cut from Medicare, one must ask where Obama's healthcare architects think they can "save" money? One area that we know will disappear into ephemeral mist are Cochlear Implants for the Deaf. Now, under the current system, we implant more than 40% of all CIs in the world with only 5% of the world's population. The other 95% of the world's population "enjoys" the other less than 60% of CI procedures. The fact is simple that under a single payer program, the powers that be view $125,000 cochlear implants to be "extravagant" and reserve the few they will cover for those with the greatest promise to benefit society---the children. Certainly, this 61-year-old deaf male would not have received a CI under ObamaCare if it had been in existence in 1993, when I was implanted. Let's see how far Zeke Emmanual's life quality (in years) would have been off on this deaf fellow: Since getting the implant, the completion of three more advanced university degrees, generating thousands of new jobs, and aggragate economic activity in the tens of millions of $, hundreds of published papers and articles, uncountable research projects and lectures, not to mention exceptional philanthropic projects. His scale is all wrong, but of course, it is not far off from Hitler's Eugenics policies, which pretty well allocated finite state resources to those who were deemed most useful to the state. Of course, we know what happened to the disabled (of which this entrepid reporter would have numbered), and those declared a burden to society, mostly the older and infirm, et al. I am not suggesting that Obama and the Dems have eugenics in mind---but perhaps under the scenario that we know awaits this Congress' voracious appetite for unprecedented deficit spending, left unchecked, and seething mobs of unemployed people, the possibilities seem endless! In that $500,000,000 cut from Medicare, one must ask where Obama’s healthcare architects think they can “save” money? One area that we know will disappear into ephemeral mist are Cochlear Implants for the Deaf. Now, under the current system, we implant more than 40% of all CIs in the world with only 5% of the world’s population. The other 95% of the world’s population “enjoys” the other less than 60% of CI procedures. The fact is simple that under a single payer program, the powers that be view $125,000 cochlear implants to be “extravagant” and reserve the few they will cover for those with the greatest promise to benefit society—the children. Certainly, this 61-year-old deaf male would not have received a CI under ObamaCare if it had been in existence in 1993, when I was implanted. Let’s see how far Zeke Emmanual’s life quality (in years) would have been off on this deaf fellow: Since getting the implant, the completion of three more advanced university degrees, generating thousands of new jobs, and aggragate economic activity in the tens of millions of $, hundreds of published papers and articles, uncountable research projects and lectures, not to mention exceptional philanthropic projects. His scale is all wrong, but of course, it is not far off from Hitler’s Eugenics policies, which pretty well allocated finite state resources to those who were deemed most useful to the state. Of course, we know what happened to the disabled (of which this entrepid reporter would have numbered), and those declared a burden to society, mostly the older and infirm, et al. I am not suggesting that Obama and the Dems have eugenics in mind—but perhaps under the scenario that we know awaits this Congress’ voracious appetite for unprecedented deficit spending, left unchecked, and seething mobs of unemployed people, the possibilities seem endless!

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